Bootleg cross-reference

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This page attempts to cross-reference commercially released and privately traded named bootleg recordings to the corresponding recording available on the wiki. This page is a work-in-progress and woefully underrepresents the number of commercial and named bootlegs in existence at the time of this writing. Bootlegs are referred to by name specifically in order to improve searchability (in the hopes that a fan searching for a bootleg by name on a search engine will locate the recording available freely on the wiki instead), and bootleg names are linked to the Discogs information for "all variants" of a given bootleg, where available.

Please do not purchase bootlegs (except for the purposes of liberating a bootleg) as your monetary support goes only toward the bootleggers and not the band! DM Live does not condone or support the purchase or creation of commercial bootlegs.

It is evident that a number of recent bootlegs use content freely available on this wiki, complete with blatant copy & paste of descriptions and metadata, with formatting often unchanged. DM Live is not involved with any bootleg labels and any similarity to content which is freely available on this wiki is done out of laziness, greed, and lack of creativity by the bootleg label.

Commercial bootlegs
Tour Bootleg name Maps to Wiki source Wiki source superior? Reason for superiority
1980 Tour Bridgehouse 1980-10-30 Bridge House, London, England, UK/Source 1 Unknown generation audience cassette Yes Correct running order & one more song; higher fidelity
1980 Tour A Nice Surprise
King Of Strangers
1980-11-14 Technical College, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England, UK/Source 1 Unknown generation audience cassette Yes Higher fidelity
1981 Tour Live At Crocs Night Club June 27, 1981 1981-06-27 Crocs, Rayleigh, Essex, England, UK/Source 1 First-generation soundboard cassette
(flat transfer)
Yes Significantly higher fidelity;
no harmful noise reduction or EQ
1982 See You Tour Toys 1982-02-21 Tiffany's, Glasgow, Scotland, UK/Source 1 Master FM broadcast cassette Yes Extremely high fidelity
1983-1984 Construction Time Again Tour New Life In The Netherlands
1983-12-06 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Source 1 Master FM broadcast cassette
(flat transfer)
Yes Significantly higher fidelity, correct speed and one more song; no excessive noise reduction or EQ
1983-1984 Construction Time Again Tour Hysterika
On The Crest Of A Wave
1984-03-06 Orfeo Music Hall, Milan, Italy/Source 1 First-generation audience cassette
(master tape is confirmed to have been recorded over)
Yes Higher fidelity
1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour Performance 1984-11-30 St. Jacobs Sporthalle, Basel, Switzerland/Source 2 (master tape) or Source 3 ("Performance" 2xCD bootleg) Master FM broadcast cassette
(flat transfer)
Yes Higher fidelity; no excessive noise reduction or EQ
1986 Black Celebration Tour Crepuscule 1986-04-28 Valbyhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark/Source 1 Unknown generation cassette copy of audience 2xLP bootleg No
1986 Black Celebration Tour Landscape 1986-05-02 Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany/Source 1 Audience 2xCD bootleg No
1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour Italian Tour 11/87 1987-10-27 Paleur, Rome, Italy/Source 1 Low-generation audience cassette Yes Higher fidelity
1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour Speechless People 1987-11-06 Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany/Source 3 Audience 1xLP bootleg No
1990 World Violation Tour Violator Live 1990-08-04 Dodgers Stadium, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 1 Soundboard 3xLP bootleg No
1990 World Violation Tour Sweetest Violation 1990-10-02 Valbyhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark/Source 1 Tracks 1 to 13 - audience silver CD bootleg.

Tracks 14 to 20 - unknown generation cassette copy of a 2xLP bootleg.

Yes Contains 6 missing songs compared to the silver CD variant
1990 World Violation Tour A Nice Surprise
King Of Strangers
1990-10-23 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France/Source 1 Audience 2xCD bootleg No
1990 World Violation Tour Une Nuit A La Mode 1990-11-11 Palatrussardi, Milan, Italy/Source 1 Audience 2xCD bootleg No
1993 Devotional Tour Enjoy The Rumours 1993-07-31 Crystal Palace Sports Ground, London, England, UK/Source 1 A rework of various silver CDs of FM broadcast bootlegs Yes Five sources were used to provide the most complete, best sounding version of this recording
1994 Exotic Tour DM Rocks Hawaii 1994-03-26 Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, HI, USA/Source 1 Remastered soundboard CD bootleg Yes This bootleg has been remastered, adding quite a bit of dynamic range and making the recording much more enjoyable to listen to
2005-2006 Touring The Angel KROQ - Almost Acoustic Christmas 2005 2005-12-11 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, CA, USA/Source 1 Pre-FM soundboard CD Yes Higher fidelity, as expected from a pre-FM source